Major General Mark MacCarley was commissioned in the United States Army Reserve (USAR) in 1983. He retired in 2015 as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). He spent half his career on active duty, mainly in Active Component Units. Prior to his assignment to TRADOC, he served as the Deputy Commander (Support), 1st Army and concurrently as Commander, 1st Army Reserve Support Command. MacCarley holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University School of Law, Los Angeles. He is a managing partner at MacCarley & Rosen, PLC, focusing on international business transactions, government relations and national security issues.